I opened my mouth to explain to him how sorry I was for not staying put like he told me to, but then a loud beeping noise came from his belt.

"Enjoy the reunion with your old friend?" Came Saddler's voice from the other end of Leon's communicator.

"As a matter of fact, I did." Leon retorted.

"Wonderful. I wouldn't want my special guests on my island feeling unattended." He spoke the last words like he was talking to a sad dog.

"Guess I'm supposed to thank you, right?"

"Ah, I have an idea! Since you're here, why don't I introduce you to 'It'." Leon and I exchanged looks of confusion before he nodded and turned back to the device. "'It' should keep you company."

"Can't remember the name, huh? A senior moment perhaps." He said, trying to pry whatever the creature was out of the man.

This just resulted in getting a very forced laugh from him. "Enjoy the fun." He said before hastily hanging up.

"Leon, I-I'm so sorry for not waiting like you told me to. It's just, I thought you—"

"It's fine." He interrupted. "I'm actually glad you came when you did; you distracted him just long enough for me to get away."

I couldn't tell if he was just saying that to make me feel better, or if he truly meant it. "But what about that woman…?" I asked, looking up at him.

He sighed and shook his head. "I don't really feel like talking about it right now."

I looked him directly in the eyes, very sternly. "Leon. Please tell me."

He looked back at me, but I held my stare; I could see his eyes softening. "…Okay. Do you want the whole story or—"

"The whole thing." I interrupted. "Start from the beginning."

He sighed again. He had a habit of doing that. "Okay. It was September of 1998, you were probably about eleven, and it was my first day on the force of the Raccoon City Police Department…"

He continued to explain to me everything that happened six years ago, and I mean everything. Every inch of detail from finding Claire Redfield, Claire finding Sherry on the search for her brother Chris, then they found Ada who was looking for her fiancé, John, but she was really just a spy for a man named Albert Wesker. Wesker invented the T-virus, which turned people into zombies. Real. Zombies. I had a hard time believing it until I thought about everything that's happened here and came to the conclusion that anything was possible. I mean hey, I kissed the hottest man on the planet not even ten minutes ago.

It turned out that Wesker was the head of an International Pharmaceutical Enterprise called Umbrella. Ada had been working for him, and was sent to retrieve the G-virus sample, but all of the samples had been destroyed, except for one which had been used on Dr. William Birkin. The doctor's wife confronted Leon about how Ada was a spy, and then shot her, making her fall to her 'death'. He also explained how in 2002, he and Krauser went to South America to search for missing teenage girls, and there was this one freaky chick who totally messed up Krauser's left arm, but I wasn't very interested in that part; I was focused on the story about Ada.

"So… you love her." The pain was obvious in my voice; I didn't even try to hide it.

He sighed heavily. "Remind me why I'm talking about this with you?"

I was quiet, and looked down at my shoes. Maybe he had a point, what right did I have to discuss his love life with him? Then again, I did kiss him earlier…

"Come on…" He said as sincerely as he could, and he turned around to walk to a ladder beside us.

"Wait, is she still working for him?" I tried to hide the pain in my voice, and replaced it with curiosity.

"What?"

"Is she still working for Wesker?"

He was silent for a second, but then he answered in a short statement. "Yes." He said.

My reply came quickly; I didn't have time to think about it before I was already saying it. "Leon, she lied to you, betrayed you, and faked her own death… can't you take a hint?" I was being harsh, I knew it. But it hurt loving someone when they loved someone else.

He thought about what I said for about two seconds, before walking away, leaving my question unanswered.

"Leon, wait." I called after him, but didn't move.

"Leon, please…" There was obvious desperation in my voice and he stopped, but didn't turn around. My eyes very suddenly filling with those dreaded drops of water as my brain decided to be an ass and reminded me of every bad thing that had happened since I arrived in that God forsaken place.

I tried my best to hold the tears in, but to no avail. "I'm sorry…"

Before I realized it, his arms were wrapped around me. To be honest, it just made me feel worse. I was already a total mess, and after kissing him, I was almost positive some wire in my brain had begun to unravel.

To my surprise, I was the one who let go first, even though it only lasted around three seconds.

"I'm sorry." I repeated, barely audibly. I wasn't crying much anymore, but I wasn't necessarily cheerful either. "For everything… For coming with you, getting you hurt so many times, getting on your nerves, getting trapped and having you spend so much time looking for me, and I bet someone can find some way to pin me on what happened to Luis, and—"

"Hey," He snapped. "Look at me. That was not your fault. It was Saddler's. Okay? You are not responsible in anyway, how could you be? You were in that trap, remember?"

I nodded sheepishly. "Yeah… And Leon, about what happened earlier, I—"

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

I was quiet for a moment. "You know, I'm not going to lie. It's going to be a lot harder being this close to you from now on." I gave him a small smile, and he smiled back.

"Am I that irresistible?" Hearing him joke like that again made me smile even bigger.

"We're going to have to talk about that eventually." I said as we were walking across the metal floor.

He nodded. "I know." He jumped down a ladder and I followed him.

We kept walking until we came across a very shiny metal door. Leon opened it with caution and we both looked around in confusion. This had to be the cleanest room I had seen on this island. There were two doors in front of us and I approached them carefully, but as soon as I was within three inches of them, they slid open revealing a white hallway.

"Let me go first." Leon said as he walked past me.

I nodded and after he took two steps, three lasers emitted from the walls. Two were vertical, moving left and right, and one was horizontal moving up and down.

"Follow my lead." He said. He waited until there was an opening and quickly rushed through, turning back around and motioning me to follow him.

I mimicked his actions and once we took a few more steps forward, more lasers shot out. There were five this time, and they kept crisscrossing with each other. Leon waited for a clear path and ran through them, but immediately halted when more lasers shot out. They were crisscrossed and they began moving forward towards him at a fast pace. From what I could see, there was no way to dodge in time from where he was standing.

"Leon!" I shouted from behind him. When those lasers popped out, the ones behind me all disappeared. Just before they hit him, he dove straight through an opening in the middle. I turned around and began running back. The doors didn't open when I walked up to them, and the lasers stopped about four feet in front of me. But then, about twenty more shot out in front of Leon and he did a super amazing somersault in between them, just barely dodging the lasers.

"What do I do?!" I shouted. They were racing towards me now.

"Just get down!"

I did as he said and I laid flat on my stomach, the deathly lasers just barely missing me. But there were more. Leon had pressed a button by the doors at the end of the hallway and more lasers had flashed right above me, moving towards him. He dodged them, of course, but I didn't get to see what happened because I was still lying on the floor, afraid there was going to be more. A few seconds later I heard a beep and looked up: Leon was at the doors and the light beside them had turned green. I assumed it was okay and jumped up, even though if I was wrong I'd most likely be dead.

"Are you okay?" I asked him, my eyes darting all over his body to check for injuries.

He nodded. "I'm fine."

I studied him. Even if he wasn't fine, he probably wouldn't tell me. But I just decided to go with it. "You have to teach me how to do that." I said as we walked through the doors.

He grinned. "Like I said, maybe after this whole thing is over."

That gave me more hope than I thought it would. After this was over… would that mean we'd stay in touch?

My thoughts didn't have much room to wander because this room was even more confusing than the last. There weren't any visible doors, and there was a throne sitting in the middle of the room, a single red light shining down on it, the Las Plagas symbol on the wall behind it.

"What do we do now?" I asked, turning to the man next to me. He seemed just as confused as I was, though.

He walked over and around the throne, revealing another motion censored door behind the throne, the place I thought was a wall. It was a circular elevator that was just big enough to fit a person and have enough room for them to move around in, making it very awkward for Leon and me; we were only about six inches apart, facing each other. I tried my best not to look directly at him, but as soon as the elevator went down it was pretty much impossible. We went down a very narrow and long tube.

"L-Leon?" I called out into the darkness.

"Yeah?" His voice came back louder and closer than I'd expected.

"A-Are you sure this goes anywhere?"

He was quiet for a second and then said, "Well, it has to. Why would you have athrone in a room that leads nowhere?"

He had a point, so I didn't say much. After a few seconds, though, I said, "I-It's dark…"

I could hear the smirk in his voice. "Well, I'm not going anywhere."

A broad grin appeared on my face. "I know."